David Copperfield Quotes

“Ye-es. Barkis is willin'.”

“It’s only my child-wife!”

“I only ask for information.”

“I ate umble pie with an appetite.”

“I never will desert Mr. Micawber.”

“I feel it more than other people.”

“I assure you she's the dearest girl!”

“It's a mad world. Mad as Bedlam, boy!”

“[T]rifles make the sum of life.”

“Let sleeping dogs lie — who wants to rouse 'em?”

“I live on broken wittles - and I sleep on the coals.”

“You'll find us rough, sir, but you'll find us ready.”

“A man must take the fat with the lean.”

“He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.”

“I'd better go into the house, and die and be a riddance!”

“What a world of gammon and spinach it is, though, ain't it!”

“Other things are all very well in their way, but give me Blood!”

“I am a lone lorn creetur... and everythink goes contrairy with me.”

“[A] loving heart was better and stronger than wisdom...”

“A long pull, and a strong pull, and a pull altogether, my hearties, hurrah!”